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true, but its meant that people have had their energies taken up by a (currently) lesser threat whilst a greater one has actually caused real deaths on UK territory.

also extremists worldwide know that people are desensitised (this is after all a world where people upload incidents of violence to youtube for fun and entertainment) so will “raise the bar” by scaling up their activities until they get more publicity…

I expect some group somewhere in the world will try…

The Indian attacks were bad enough, India actually didn’t have the surveillance / state infrastructure a nation of that size normally has but their authorities are now implementing it (and I’m sure all those brainy computer programmers and engineers could do a much better job of it than our IT industry has done!)

That said I think the Irish attacks are actually more linked with organised criminal gangs – the old RUC was obviously heavily occupied with dealing with the Troubles, and they simply don’t want the new PSNI to have the spare resources to bust their rackets which is what is obviously starting to happen with less real violence in NI.

I get the impression a lot of people there on both sides fully enjoyed being the “hard man” during the troubles and are angry that their former leaders have dared try and work for peace!

One of the dead soldiers was Middle Eastern/Asian, the dead cop was a Catholic and the injured pizza guy was Polish…